Grant's final victory : Ulysses S. Grant's heroic last year / Charles Bracelen Flood
- Author:
- Flood, Charles Bracelen
- Published:
- Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2011.
- Edition:
- 1st Da Capo Press ed.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- A change in fortune -- The man waiting for more bad news -- The lady at 3 East Sixty-sixth Street -- Retreat to New Jersey -- An opportunity -- To eat a peach, and soldier on -- Grant puts on his armor -- Mark Twain strides onto the stage -- Horses, and a last cigar -- A bittersweet Christmas -- Things come together -- Twenty years after the nation's great redemptive moment ; Reactions to a sick hero ; Unmarked anniversaries -- The "man of iron" keeps going -- Another loan from Vanderbilt -- Sunlight and shadow -- Good-bye, Ulyss. And thank you.
- Summary:
- Recounts the last year of the former president's life, after losing his fortune, discovering he had cancer, and his race to complete his memoirs --
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780306820281 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0306820285 (hardcover : alk. paper), 9780306821516 (pbk.), and 0306821516 (pbk.)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the Lippincott Family Memorial Libraries Endowment in Memory of Carolyn Lippincott and James Lippincott; 2013
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